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Ulysse invente l’exploration gratuite dont les Européens auront le monopole. Plus tard, l’esprit d’aventure sera porté dans les confins par Vasco de Gama, Livingstone, Lévi-Strauss, Jean Rouch, Cousteau, Hermann Buhl, Charcot et Magellan. Inspiré par Ulysse, l’homme européen a fouillé le monde. Mieux ! C’est lui qui a manifesté un intérêt pour ce q

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Alexander von Humboldt, introduced the notion of Wissenschaft, which connotes the all-round development of the individual and the need to cultivate the whole personality rather than just the mind. The purpose of the university, Humboldt insisted, should therefore be to ‘lay open the whole body of knowledge and expound both the principles and founda

He held center stage through the 1850s; he had overshadowed them all—Silliman, Dana, Henry, Hall, Gray. The voice of Charles Darwin was still to be heard.

He wished to convey the excitement of science to the intelligent nonscientific reader. He had been thinking about such a work for fifty years. He could not accept what he called the narrow-minded, sentimental view that nature loses its…

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heroic traveler and explorer.

All told they spent nearly two years in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. From Bogotá they went over the Andes on foot, picking the more difficult of two possible routes. They were in the Andes, crossing and recrossing, from September 1801 until October 1802, and they must have made a picturesque caravan, with their guides and mules and scientific instr